In the course of giving myself busywork, I have stumbled on something that is now driving me mad. I would like to convert between two arbitrary bases without using base 10 as an intermediary. The algorithm for doing so with base 10 is pretty simple, you just use the algorithm for converting from Bas...

I like the idea behind this one, but I think the last panel flubbed. It seemed a bit too blunt. Just taking out the word "toboggan" and making it "the Calvin and Hobbes Model" would've improved it. Or "The Watterson model".

Why should someone be required to vote if they don't want to, it's just a waste of everyone's time in that case. I'd imagine it'd be really hard to pass something requiring voting anyway. I think it would be genius. Anyone that votes would vote Yes, but anyone that didn't vote would have to go out ...

Watching a(n educational) movie in class, it shows a picture of a woman from the 1880s. It says something along the lines of Woman's power and has a woman wearing a metal outfit which surrounds her torso and makes an X over her chest, but completely exposes the breasts. From the side of the room, we...

i was out getting some exercise on ye olde bicycle today and i almost ran over a turtle trying to (slowly) cross the road. so i stopped, walked back, and carried him across the road to the other side. that in itself would not warrant a topic, normally. what amazed me was all the negativity i saw in...

The one that struck me most: 14. Professors don't think you're trying to cheat every time their backs are turned. It still feels kind of weird to take a test without scooting the desks apart. ;) My statics/dynamics prof gave tests that were so hard he expected us to work together. It was rather odd...

2) They've been told by a girl (or girls) that long hair is sexy. I've definitely been told that. It wasn't why I grew my hair long, but it's part of why I kept at it. It helped give me self-confidence that I didn't have much of at the time. Agreed. It's not the 50s anymore, long hair doesn't carry...

Didn't something similar to this happen in the second Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy book? Those were aliens from annother world who crashed on Earth and decided to settle in. Very true, but Arthur and Ford did play Scrabble! That was probably what caught roc's mind. That was certainly the entire...

Well, the VP pretty much has one job (besides becoming president if something happens) and that's to cast the tiebreaker in the senate, which isn't that important of a duty. If she connects with the people and rallies support for the government then that's good reason to elect her. So why is there ...

I always thought the Babelfish thing was too much of a copout. No hitchhiker would ever die, which Ford explicitly states that they do, if the Babelfish actually did that. Not to mention it should have kicked in about 40 times previously as well. Why would it have kicked in previously if they lived...

Honestly, I don't care. Language is used for communication. As long as the intention is clear, I don't much gives a damn how ugly the grammar is. AOLeze annoys me, sure, but some of the complaints in this thread are just anal retentive nonsense. You obviously knew what they meant if you're correctin...

I do the same, but I don't even give them names, just icons. Saves so much space. You, sir, are a man of vast wisdom. Indeed. I kept trying to include another level of bookmark toolbar, but it ended up I have always forgot to check the ones after '>>'. Now I'm a different person, there is only one ...

I always found something lacking in the Hitchhiker's series. Don't get me wrong, Douglas Adams is one of the best writers I have yet come across and I've read the series multiple times and still enjoy it. The writing is awesome, the characters are awesome, the quirky point of view is refreshing... ...

I solve this problem by putting all of my most-frequently used sites in my bookmark toolbar with very abbreviated names, to maximize clickyspace. To type in the address bar is a rare phenomenon. Of course, this means that all of projects take about x 10 times longer than they ever would without the...

I solve this problem by putting all of my most-frequently used sites in my bookmark toolbar with very abbreviated names, to maximize clickyspace. To type in the address bar is a rare phenomenon. Of course, this means that all of projects take about x 10 times longer than they ever would without the ...